Musa Qala
Musa Qala is a town and the district centre of Musa Qala District in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. It is located at and at an altitude of 1,043 m in the valley of Musa Qala River in the central western part of the district.
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- …lies at an elevation of around 1,040 metres (3,420 feet)
- Description: town in Helmand Province, Afghanistan
- Also known as“De Mūsá Qal‘eh”“Mūsá Qal‘ah”“Mūsá Qal‘eh”“Musakala”“Takhta Pul”“موسى قعله”
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Latitude
32.472° or 32° 28′ 19″ north
Longitude
64.74704° or 64° 44′ 49″ east
Open location code
8J46FPCW+QR
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Uzbek—“Musa Qala” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ሙሳ ቅላህ”
- Arabic: “موسى قلعة”
- Arabic: “موسى قلعه”
- Asturian: “Musa Qala”
- Azerbaijani: “Musa Qal’ah”
- Bengali: “মুসা কালা”
- Chinese: “穆萨堡”
- Chinese: “穆薩堡”
- Danish: “Musa Qala”
- Dutch: “Musa Qala”
- Egyptian Arabic: “موسى قلعه”
- French: “Musa Qal’ah”
- French: “Musa Qala”
- German: “Musa Qal’ah”
- German: “Musa Qala”
- Hausa: “Musa Qal’ah”
- Hindi: “मूसा क़ल्आह”
- Indonesian: “Musa Qal’ah”
- Japanese: “ムーサ・カラ”
- Japanese: “ムサカラー”
- Javanese: “Musa Qal’ah”
- Kazakh: “Муса-Қала”
- Kirghiz: “Муса-Қала”
- Lithuanian: “Musa Kala”
- Malay: “Musa Qal’ah”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Musa Qala”
- Oromo: “Musa Qal’ah”
- Panjabi: “ਮੁਸਾ ਕਲਾ”
- Persian: “موسیٰ قلعه”
- Portuguese: “Musa Qal’ah”
- Pushto: “موسیٰ قلعه”
- Russian: “Муса-Кала”
- Somali: “Musa Qal’ah”
- Spanish: “Musa Qal’ah”
- Spanish: “Musa Qala”
- Swahili: “Musa Qal’ah”
- Swedish: “Musa Qala”
- Swedish: “Musa Qalah”
- Swedish: “Musa Qaleh”
- Tajik: “Муса-Қала”
- Tatar: “Муса-Қала”
- Turkish: “Musa Qal’ah”
- Urdu: “موسیٰ قلعہ، افغانستان”
- Urdu: “موسیٰ قلعہ”
- Uzbek: “Musa Qal’ah”
- Uzbek: “Musa qala tumani”
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Localities in the Area
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